It’s intentional, though I don’t feel that strongly about it.
It’s a bit nicer if we can offer people who rent things a bit more privacy and security and have a bit of a trivial inconvenience for random people finding the address of an event hosted here (it’s not hard to find if you look for it, but my guess is it still helps to not have it listed directly).
Posting highly sensitive personal information, such as street addresses, is not allowed on the Forum. Although this is the address of an organization’s campus, rather than a specific individual, it can nonetheless pose a risk to those using the campus.
As I see it, this was not meant to be a warning, or any sort of “punitive” action. It’s clear that Felix was just being helpful, and that the information was pretty public.
I saw it as a reminder of our general policy. It’s not always clear how “public” some information is[1], and it’s good to err on the safe side and let people decide what information they want to include in their posts and comments online.
see e.g. the famous case of Scott Alexander’s legal name, which has always been very easy to Google, but he understandably didn’t want it in the NYT article
We’re going to need to keep updating our sense of “searchable” as LLMs get better.
(Which means people need to be careful about what they post now—I remember when everyone thought gating something behind JS execution protected it from search engines.)
My current model is that it not being in searchable text is indeed a pretty big advantage.
Agree LLMs make this more confusing, but we can edit things as we get to that point. I might also get around to editing the image in the next few days.
Possible this isn’t an accident, but I couldn’t find an address for the campus (also, it looks awesome).
[Address removed by moderators.]
I also was not able to find it directly on the website.
It’s intentional, though I don’t feel that strongly about it.
It’s a bit nicer if we can offer people who rent things a bit more privacy and security and have a bit of a trivial inconvenience for random people finding the address of an event hosted here (it’s not hard to find if you look for it, but my guess is it still helps to not have it listed directly).
If you’re trying to make it a bit more inconvenient you could consider removing one or both street names from the map?
Posting highly sensitive personal information, such as street addresses, is not allowed on the Forum. Although this is the address of an organization’s campus, rather than a specific individual, it can nonetheless pose a risk to those using the campus.
It’s bit weird to come down like this when the post itself already includes the location of the campus.
As I see it, this was not meant to be a warning, or any sort of “punitive” action. It’s clear that Felix was just being helpful, and that the information was pretty public.
I saw it as a reminder of our general policy. It’s not always clear how “public” some information is[1], and it’s good to err on the safe side and let people decide what information they want to include in their posts and comments online.
You’re very free to dox yourself if you want!
see e.g. the famous case of Scott Alexander’s legal name, which has always been very easy to Google, but he understandably didn’t want it in the NYT article
Taken literally the personal information policy does not appear (on my skim) to have any exemption for auto-doxing so the post itself is in violation.
Tempted to dox myself, but poking moderators with a stick to see what happens is a dangerous game...
Not in searchable text though?
We’re going to need to keep updating our sense of “searchable” as LLMs get better.
(Which means people need to be careful about what they post now—I remember when everyone thought gating something behind JS execution protected it from search engines.)
My current model is that it not being in searchable text is indeed a pretty big advantage.
Agree LLMs make this more confusing, but we can edit things as we get to that point. I might also get around to editing the image in the next few days.
This and “tablegate” are clearly the biggest EA issues right now. Moderation team should curate the comment...